AN ACT CONCERNING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE NATIONAL PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION COMMISSION

SUMMARY:
Within available appropriations, this act requires state and municipal agencies that incarcerate or detain adult offenders, including immigration detainees, to adopt and comply with the applicable standards recommended by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission for preventing, detecting, monitoring, and responding to sexual abuse.
The agencies covered are prisons, jails, community correction facilities, and lockups.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
October 1, 2012

STANDARDS

At a minimum, the act requires the agencies to adopt and comply with the commission's standards on:

26.
collecting and reviewing data for corrective action and providing for data storage, publication, and destruction;
and

27.
auditing the standards.

BACKGROUND

National Prison Rape Elimination Commission

Congress created this commission to study the causes and consequences of sexual abuse in prison and develop standards to eliminate prison rape.
The commission submitted its report in June 2009.
The report included detailed standards to reduce sexual abuse of offenders in adult prisons and jails, juvenile detention facilities, facilities housing immigration detainees, lock-ups, and community corrections facilities.